Pedralbes

Pedralbes (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈðɾalβəs], Old Catalan for white stones) is a neighborhood in Les Corts district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Before the administrative division of 1984, the neighborhood was part of Sarrià and the former municipality of Sant Vicenç de Sarrià.

For the monastery, see Monastery of Pedralbes.
Creu de Pedralbes in Pedralbes avenue

Pedralbes was the home of the Infanta Cristina of Spain from 2004 to 2013. [1]

The Lycée Français de Barcelone, a French international school, is located in Pedralbes.[2]

Pedralbes was completely transformed beginning in the 1940s with the urbanisation of the area.[3] Pedralbes is today Barcelona's most upmarket residential area, with large mansions surrounded by gardens, around Avinguda de Pearson, or isolated luxury apartment blocks, around Avinguda de Pedralbes.[4]

References
  1. "The Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin have put their mansion in Pedralbes up for sale". Typically Spanish. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  2. "Los hijos de Urdangarin vuelven al cole de tapadillo" (Archive). El Periódico. Wednesday 5 September 2012. Retrieved on 22 January 2015. "Se supo porque una nube de fotógrafos les esperaba a las puertas del Liceo Francés, en Pedralbes,[...]"
  3. "Pedralbes, la singularidad hecha barrio". Les Corts (in Spanish). 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  4. "Historia de Pedralbes". Les Corts (in Spanish). 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2022-01-08.

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